A Saudi charity group will build a container city that can house 10,000 Syrian refugees in Turkey's Kilis province near the border, a Turkish official said Saturday.

The project of the Saudi National Campaign to Support Brothers in Syria is expected to be ready within a month, the official told AFP.

A Syrian shell crashed Friday into a town on the Turkish side of the border, wounding a Turkish national, as fighting raged in a nearby Syrian town, a local official said.

The shell fired from the Syrian border town of Tall al-Abyad landed in Akcakale in the province of Sanliurfa, smashing into the walls of two buildings and slightly wounding one person, governor Celalettin Guvenc told the Anatolia news agency.

Two Turkish troops and 13 Kurdish rebels have been killed in a military operation in southeastern Turkey, security sources said Thursday.

The air and ground operation, launched Wednesday, was targeting members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) sheltering in the mountainous areas near the town of Cukurca in Hakkari province, near the border with Iraq, according to the sources.

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said Turkey could hold new negotiations with Kurdish rebels, in the face of a surge in deadly violence in the Kurdish-dominated southeast.

"We are ready to do whatever is necessary to (find) a solution," Erdogan told Turkish television late Wednesday, but insisting that the militants who have been fighting the Turkish state since 1984 must lay down their weapons.

Prime Minister Najib Miqati is scheduled to address on Thursday the 67th General Assembly meeting held at the United Nations headquarters in New York around midnight Beirut time.

The premier contacted President Michel Suleiman to brief him on the meetings that he held in New York with top officials, according to a statement issued by Miqati's press office.

A Greek and a Turkish coastguard vessel have collided in the Aegean Sea, the Greek Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday, adding that a complaint would be made to Ankara over the issue.

"The Turkish coastguard vessel was sailing dangerously and collided with a Greek coastguard vessel" on anti-immigration patrol near the island of Farmakonissi, the ministry said.

A French-Turkish university student went on trial on Wednesday accused of links to an outlawed far-left extremist group in a case that has sparked criticism from human rights groups.

Sevil Sevimli, who was arrested in May and spent three months in jail until her conditional release in August, appeared in court in the northwestern city of Bursa along with five other defendants.

A Lebanese pilgrim kidnapped in Syria in May returned to Beirut from Turkey to a hero's welcome on Wednesday night, a day after his release by his abductors.

Awad Ibrahim arrived at Rafik Hariri international airport aboard a Turkish Airlines flight around 8:30 pm accompanied by two General Security and Internal Security Forces officers.

Six people were killed and several others wounded when a bomb apparently targeting police exploded in southeastern Turkey on Tuesday, hospital sources said.

The powerful blast in the center of the province of Tunceli destroyed a police vehicle and hit another vehicle, local security sources told Agence France Presse.

A bomb exploded in Kurdish-majority southeastern Turkey on Tuesday as a police vehicle passed by, wounding several people, security sources said.

The powerful blast in the center of Tunceli province destroyed the vehicle, the sources said, and many ambulances were dispatched to the scene.